FOR HR PROFESSIONALS, to enhance core skills through the critical lenses of Business Acumen, DEIA, Strategic Orientation and Innovation. As part of this course, you develop a personal development plan that prepares you for future success by improving your HR leadership skills and helping you develop targeted initiatives to improve your agency.

This course will prepare you to build your HR competencies and help you strategically position HR as a transformative business partner and leader in the organization.

Course Outcomes: 

• Build your skill set in the 4 HR Lenses: business acumen; innovation; strategic orientation; and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. As part of this course, you will build a personal development plan for these competencies. 
• Build your skill set in the HR Areas of Focus: leadership, culture, talent, technology, and communication. You will build a personal development plan for these competencies as well.
• Learn strategies for building, presenting, and gaining buy-in for the initiatives you develop to improve how HR is positioned within your agency.

Online Lessons and Cohort Sessions:

This course includes six online lessons you will complete on your own and three cohort sessions facilitated by a cohort guide. The online lessons will give you an opportunity to assess your skills; teach important concepts, principles and practices; and help you begin planning improvement initiatives. The cohort discussions will give you an opportunity to share ideas and learn from your  peers.  In the cohort discussions you will further develop and refine the improvement plans you draft in the online sessions.

HR Executive Leadership:

Best practices on how to develop your HR public sector leadership skills in the 4 lenses (business acumen; innovation; strategic orientation; and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) and the 5 Areas of Focus (leadership, culture, talent, technology, and communications). The HR20/20 Report will introduce you to the Lenses and Areas of Focus.

Course Design:

The timeline below gives you an overview of the lessons and sessions in this course, their order, and when the cohort sessions will occur. This course will be completed over the next six weeks.

Note: You will be provided with the specific dates, times, and locations for the cohort sessions. 

Time Commitment:

Consider scheduling 60 - 90 minutes for the online lessons to read through the material, complete the activities, and prepare for the cohort sessions. Complete the lessons at least a day or two before the cohort session to give yourself time to reflect on what you have learned and the plans you have developed.

Course Price:

Member Price:  $1,200.00 and Non-Member Price:  $1,400.00

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